New Jersey · Nonprofit
BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC
BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $950,970 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($338,300). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $987k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $951k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Bayshore Center at Bivalve Inc does
Mission
Through the state's official tall ship, the oyster schooner aj meerwald, and historic waterfront museum, the bayshore center at bivalve ("bcb") will advance understanding of the human impact on new jersey's aquatic environment through education, advocacy & programming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Bcb accomplishes its mission through its educational programing at the bivalve center, through community-based programs not tied to the center, and on board the historic schooner aj meerwald. Bcb's community-based programs include but are not limited to educational programs held in schools, libraries, parks, and other public spaces. Bcb partners with like-minded organizations to provide educational bcb maintains a significant collection of photographs, artifacts, and programs around the mid-atlantic region including historical societies, museums, civic clubs, and other nonprofits. Bcb's most unique and most popular educational programing is aboard the aj meerwald, on which passengers learn about the history of the region and the human impact on it. Through these educational programs, bcb educates over 2,000 children and nearly 4,000 adults each year on the human impact on the environment using history as a guide.
$487,519 spent74% of program spendingBcb maintains a significant collection of photographs, artifacts, and ephemera documenting and preserving the history of the delaware bay. The folklife center presents programs and conducts research including an oral history project that is capturing bayshore stories and sharing them with the broader community. The restored 1904 bivalve shipping sheds (on the national register of historic places) serve as the centerpiece of the museum and interpret the incredible importance of oysters to the south jersey regional economy and development.
$171,156 spent26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $658,675.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $5.3M to $4.9M (−9%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 27% · 2019 17% · 2020 33% · 2021 48% · 2022 42% · 2023 22% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
John Gancy
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $100 → $36k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 82% · 2020 77% · 2021 34% · 2022 41% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $443k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $508k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record — $36k federal, $2.0M state.
- Department of Agriculture$36k
- GRANT IN AID$1.9M
- TRUST FUND$63k
- BOND FUND$49k
- FEDERAL$24k
- DEDICATED$17k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$345
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC?
- BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $950,970 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($338,300). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $950,970 in grants to BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY is the largest funder on record, with $338,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAYSHORE CENTER AT BIVALVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing